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After years of poor health a recent improvement has enabled me to make lots of rail trips, also cheaper than a holiday! From Worthing on a Saturday I've been catching the 0542 to Victoria 0659 then 0810 (0740 please!) from Marylebone to Birmingham Moor St 1001. I've been very impressed with...

Horsham, West Sussex, 2 Island 4 Platform junction station on the Mid Sussex/Arun Valley Line. Built in 1930's Southern style and recently refurbished to a high standard, from the footbridge can see on top of the ridged platform roofs a single steel wire held by insulator like fixings (nothing...

I often take a bus along the road above Clayton Tunnel through the South Downs on the Brighton Line spotting the ventilation shafts, presume they were all construction headings originally. Apart from the enormous effort in digging it I'm impressed that with the equipment available they got all...

(Split from Call for cheaper 'ticket splitting' fares to be made more public. Note: this thread contains many claims & misunderstandings that are not actually true regarding split ticketing. ) Ticket Offices can't give split ticket info as without checking all of perhaps 100s of combinations...

While looking at http://traintimes.im I found the 0630SX Broadstairs/0658SO Faversham to St Pancras arr 0806 and the 0825 St P to Sheffield are both 1F13. Interesting that they're active in St P at the same time fortunately the responsibility of different Signalling Centres, but still a...

I live in Worthing [WRH] West C/W and am annoyed at getting a worse deal than Eastbourne [EBN] our East C/W equivalent. EBN first arrival in London is earlier, off-peak portion working seems to always be an overcrowded WRH 4 and a half empty EBN 8. The killer though are Advance Singles, on...

Edit: Sorry, my original interpretation was wrong not the fares which are just highly confusing! See #5 for a better explanation. Hello, a complaint on Southern's fb page led me to discover incorrect fare results for St Leonards Warrior Square [SLQ] to London Victoria [VIC] day return. SLQ is...